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On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...system to a public audience. Almost eleven years later, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting the world’s first regular high-definition television service, on the 2nd of November 1936. Television broadcasts were suspended with the outbreak ofthe Second World War. When they resumed in 1946, television started to become very successful, especially...
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Article 15 mins
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...think about your part in the many roles that teaching assistants can play. One interesting feature of the teaching assistant workforce is the extent to which it is overwhelmingly female. Why are women, especially many who are mothers, drawn to this work, and why are there so few men? This is one of the themes you will explore in this unit. As with teachers and their work,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...think about the following questions. Note down your thoughts in the box below. What relationships does Nina have in the care home? What do they mean to her? How do these relationships support her? KAY: Hi, my name is Kay. And this is my mom, Nina. And we're here in Ballyholme, Abbeyfield and Wesley. And mom's going to tell you a little bit about why she's here and how she...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...think about the meaning of, and your own impressions about, law and lawyers. Activity 1 Perceptions of law Timing: 15 minutes Write down up to five words or phrases, or draw images, that you associate with ‘law’. Try to focus on what law means to you personally. (You may want to return to what you have written later on in the course and reflect on whether your...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...think about Why we read fiction? What do we hope to gain from reading stories about imagined events that happen to imaginary people? Robert DiYanni begins his impressively wide-ranging study Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay (1997) with the following assertion about why we read: We read stories for pleasure; they entertain us. And we read them for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...think GPs listen to them? But one simple question can bring up a huge amount of information. How would you know that Google has provided you with the best information at the top of the list? You might have thousands of entries to look at. How do you know what to look at first, or how much information to look through? Then you have to think about the reliability of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...think of Mongolia? My answer, probably like many people’s, was vast empty space, those signature round white tents (which Mongolians call gers, not ‘yurts’ – a word brought in during the country’s period under Russian and Soviet influence) and Genghis Khan. One thing you might not think of is ‘a good place to die’. Yet Mongolia is punching above its weight...
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Article 15 mins
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...think are the main similarities between the arguments in this case study and the second paragraph of ‘The new economy’ quotation discussed in Section 1? Figure 2 illustrates a number of different makes of digital camera. What other products do you normally associate with the manufacturers of these cameras? [Figure 2] Copyright © IPC Media Ltd © Copyright © IPC...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs